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Routine Changing of Intravenous Administration Sets Does Not Reduce Colonization or Infection in Central Venous Catheters [PDF]

, 2004
Objective: To determine the effect of routine intravascular administration-set changes on central venous catheter (CVC) colonization and catheter related bacteremia (CRB).
Courtney, Mary, Daley, Peter, Lipman, Jeff, Rickard, Claire, Siversen, Rosemary   +4 more
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Healing of femoral artery dissection after drug-coated balloon angioplasty: A case report with intravascular ultrasonography and angioscopy images

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2019
Early 80s male with intermitted claudication underwent endovascular therapy for atherosclerotic stenosis at left external iliac artery and middle of superficial femoral artery.
Taketsugu Tsuchiya, Minako Oda, Takaaki Takamura, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Koji Kajinami, Michihiko Kitayama   +5 more
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Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Impregnated Catheters for Prevention of Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Patients: A Meta-Analysis

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Background: Multiple Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have evaluated the efficacy of antimicrobial-impregnated catheters to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI).
Li Lai, Xuan Yue
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2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design

Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology, 2012
During the past decade, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has evolved rapidly from an investigational procedure to its current status as a commonly performed ablation procedure in many major hospitals throughout the world.
H. Calkins, K. Kuck, R. Cappato, J. Brugada, A. Camm, Shih‐Ann Chen, H. Crijns, R. Damiano, D. W. Davies, J. Dimarco, J. Edgerton, K. Ellenbogen, M. Ezekowitz, D. Haines, M. Haïssaguerre, G. Hindricks, Y. Iesaka, W. Jackman, J. Jalife, P. Jaïs, J. Kalman, D. Keane, Young-Hoon Kim, P. Kirchhof, P. Kirchhof, G. Klein, H. Kottkamp, K. Kumagai, B. Lindsay, M. Mansour, F. Marchlinski, P. McCarthy, J. Mont, F. Morady, K. Nademanee, H. Nakagawa, A. Natale, S. Nattel, D. Packer, C. Pappone, E. Prystowsky, A. Raviele, V. Reddy, J. Ruskin, R. Shemin, H. Tsao, D. Wilber   +46 more
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Conceptual design of a personalized radiation therapy patch for skin cancer

Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2018
Radiation therapy is a valuable option for treatment of skin cancer. In order to deliver the radiation dose to the superficial skin tumor, an X-ray source, electron beam radiation therapy or a radioisotope is applied.
Pashazadeh Ali, Castro Nathan, Morganti Elena, Hutmacher Dietmar, Lagotzki Sinja, Boese Axel, Friebe Michael   +6 more
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Adjunctive strategies in the management of resistant, 'undilatable' coronary lesions after successfully crossing a CTO with a guidewire. [PDF]

, 2014
Successful revascularisation of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) remains one of the greatest challenges in the era of contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Fairley, SL, Hanratty, C, Rana, O, Spratt, JC, Talwar, S, Walsh, S   +5 more
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2024 European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Rhythm Society/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation

Europace
In the last three decades, ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has become an evidence-based safe and efficacious treatment for managing the most common cardiac arrhythmia. In 2007, the first joint expert consensus document was issued, guiding healthcare
S. Tzeis, E. Gerstenfeld, Jonathan M Kalman, E. Saad, Alireza Sepehri Shamloo, J. Andrade, Chirag R. Barbhaiya, Tina Baykaner, S. Boveda, Hugh Calkins, Ngai-Yin Chan, Minglong Chen, Shih-Ann Chen, Nikolaos Dagres, Ralph J. Damiano, T. D. De Potter, I. Deisenhofer, N. Derval, L. di Biase, M. Duytschaever, Katia Dyrda, G. Hindricks, Mélèze Hocini, Young-Hoon Kim, M. la Meir, J. Merino, Gregory F. Michaud, Andrea Natale, Isabelle Nault, Santiago Nava, Takashi Nitta, Mark O’Neill, H. Pak, J. Piccini, H. Pürerfellner, T. Reichlin, L. Saenz, Prashanthan Sanders, Richard Schilling, Boris Schmidt, G. Supple, Kevin L Thomas, C. Tondo, A. Verma, E. Wan, Daniel Steven, M. Agbayani, T. Jared Bunch, A. Chugh, J. Díaz, James V. Freeman, C. Hardy, Hein Heidbuchel, Sofian Johar, Dominik Linz, B. Maesen, Peter A. Noseworthy, Seil Oh, Andreu Porta-Sánchez, Tatjana S. Potpara, Gerardo Rodriguez-diez, F. Sacher, P. Suwalski, S. Trines   +63 more
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Host and bacterial proteases influence biofilm formation and virulence in a murine model of enterococcal catheter-associated urinary tract infection [PDF]

, 2017
Urinary tract infections: targeting enzymes might help Identifying bacterial and host enzymes that support biofilm formation may help prevent urinary tract infections caused by catheters.
Caparon, Michael G, Cusumano, Zachary T, Flores-Mireles, Ana L, Hultgren, Scott J, Takagi, Enzo, Xu, Wei   +5 more
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Advances in procedural techniques--antegrade. [PDF]

, 2014
There have been many technological advances in antegrade CTO PCI, but perhaps most importantly has been the evolution of the "hybrid' approach where ideally there exists a seamless interplay of antegrade wiring, antegrade dissection re-entry and ...
Spratt, JC, Wilson, W
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Development and Evaluation of Tri-Axial Fiber Bragg Grating Force Sensor for Catheter

Proceedings, 2017
: Avoiding the electromagnetic interference is one of the most difficult technical challenge during catheterization. The use of an optical fiber force sensor in the catheter can be an alternative. Herein, two flexure structures were designed for catheter
Dongjoo Shin, Hyeong-U Kim, Atul Kulkarni, Taesung Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source